REST Jobs in England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 104 74
Rank change year-on-year -47 -30 -8
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,665 2,890 6,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.94% 3.22% 4.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.55% 10.75% 12.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,178 1,694 2,845
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17,436 26,877 52,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.30% 29.92% 39.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14,152 16,675 26,544
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,720
25th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +14.55%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for REST in England

REST
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in England.

Salary trend for REST in England

REST
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for REST in England

REST
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -55 586 £75,000 -4.02% 135
North of England +15 327 £55,173 -15.12% 57
South East -38 326 £57,500 - 42
North West +63 242 £60,000 -14.29% 30
Midlands -25 216 £52,500 -12.50% 18
South West -48 147 £52,500 -12.50% 20
East Midlands -3 128 £50,000 - 7
West Midlands -46 88 £52,500 -12.50% 11
East of England -20 78 £47,500 -20.83% 24
Yorkshire -10 71 £47,500 -17.39% 21
North East -32 14 £47,500 -20.83% 6
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 106 (6.37%) IIS
2 77 (4.62%) Apache
3 41 (2.46%) OpenStack
4 38 (2.28%) CMS
5 30 (1.80%) Apache Spark
6 27 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.38%) JBoss
8 18 (1.08%) Confluence
8 18 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
9 13 (0.78%) nginx
10 11 (0.66%) WordPress
11 10 (0.60%) EPiServer
12 9 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
13 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
14 5 (0.30%) Drupal
15 4 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
15 4 (0.24%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
16 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.54%) Trello
3 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.90%) Shopify
3 10 (0.60%) Maximo
4 8 (0.48%) Elite 3E
5 7 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.30%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.24%) BusinessWorks
7 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.12%) Magento
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.060%) HFM
10 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle FAH
10 1 (0.060%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.060%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 715 (42.94%) Azure
2 347 (20.84%) AWS
3 289 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
4 253 (15.20%) Serverless
5 240 (14.41%) IBM Cloud
6 147 (8.83%) Azure Service Bus
7 137 (8.23%) Azure Functions
8 130 (7.81%) Azure API Management
9 129 (7.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 117 (7.03%) SaaS
11 93 (5.59%) GCP
12 90 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (4.26%) Power Platform
14 55 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
14 55 (3.30%) GitHub
15 47 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (1.62%) OpenShift
18 26 (1.56%) Power Automate
19 18 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.72%) HTTP
2 60 (3.60%) Firewall
3 54 (3.24%) Internet
4 52 (3.12%) DNS
5 43 (2.58%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.68%) AMQP
7 20 (1.20%) SSL
8 17 (1.02%) SSH
8 17 (1.02%) WAN
9 16 (0.96%) MQTT
10 14 (0.84%) VPN
11 13 (0.78%) SNMP
12 12 (0.72%) 3G
12 12 (0.72%) 4G
12 12 (0.72%) RS-485
12 12 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.72%) Wireless
13 11 (0.66%) BGP
13 11 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.66%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 429 (25.77%) PostgreSQL
2 348 (20.90%) NoSQL
3 313 (18.80%) MongoDB
4 306 (18.38%) SQL Server
5 248 (14.89%) Relational Database
6 240 (14.41%) DB2
7 93 (5.59%) MySQL
8 61 (3.66%) Redis
9 39 (2.34%) Power BI
10 35 (2.10%) Big Data
11 31 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (1.68%) Hadoop
13 26 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
14 24 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 23 (1.38%) Oracle Database
15 23 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (1.20%) GIS
17 18 (1.08%) MariaDB
18 15 (0.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 349 (20.96%) Git
2 199 (11.95%) Jenkins
3 115 (6.91%) JIRA
4 103 (6.19%) Postman
5 93 (5.59%) Cucumber
6 80 (4.80%) Selenium
7 67 (4.02%) Visual Studio
8 55 (3.30%) JUnit
9 39 (2.34%) GitLab
9 39 (2.34%) IntelliJ
10 36 (2.16%) Jasmine
10 36 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
11 35 (2.10%) TeamCity
12 34 (2.04%) Oracle APEX
13 32 (1.92%) Karma Test Runner
14 31 (1.86%) Eclipse
15 28 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
16 25 (1.50%) WebDriver
17 24 (1.44%) Bitbucket
18 23 (1.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 307 (18.44%) Public Sector
2 295 (17.72%) Social Skills
3 286 (17.18%) Finance
4 135 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (3.42%) Retail
7 52 (3.12%) Law
8 37 (2.22%) Banking
9 36 (2.16%) Marketing
10 28 (1.68%) Aerospace
10 28 (1.68%) Legal
11 25 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 13 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
14 12 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.66%) Front Office
16 8 (0.48%) Games
16 8 (0.48%) Local Government
17 6 (0.36%) German Language
Job Titles
1 929 (55.80%) Developer
2 343 (20.60%) Senior
3 201 (12.07%) Full Stack Developer
4 189 (11.35%) Senior Developer
5 186 (11.17%) Lead
6 143 (8.59%) Software Engineer
7 140 (8.41%) .NET Developer
8 133 (7.99%) Azure Developer
9 130 (7.81%) Full Stack Engineer
10 127 (7.63%) Java Developer
11 115 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
12 86 (5.17%) C# Developer
13 75 (4.50%) Software Developer
14 70 (4.20%) Lead Developer
15 58 (3.48%) Analyst
16 56 (3.36%) Architect
17 47 (2.82%) PHP Developer
18 46 (2.76%) Support Engineer
19 38 (2.28%) Senior Software Engineer
20 34 (2.04%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 684 (41.08%) .NET
2 624 (37.48%) Web Services
3 565 (33.93%) HTML
4 535 (32.13%) CSS
5 509 (30.57%) React
6 489 (29.37%) AngularJS
7 423 (25.41%) ASP.NET
8 338 (20.30%) jQuery
9 332 (19.94%) Vue
10 307 (18.44%) SOAP
11 302 (18.14%) JSON
12 300 (18.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 274 (16.46%) Node.js
14 254 (15.26%) ASP.NET Core
15 251 (15.08%) XML
16 238 (14.29%) Backbone.js
16 238 (14.29%) Ember.js
17 170 (10.21%) Spring
18 145 (8.71%) Spring Boot
19 109 (6.55%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 267 (16.04%) Data Structures
2 246 (14.77%) Algorithms
3 244 (14.65%) Blockchain
4 241 (14.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (6.85%) e-Learning
6 72 (4.32%) Management Information System
7 64 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
8 61 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
9 60 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
10 57 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
11 51 (3.06%) Product Ownership
12 49 (2.94%) Cloud Native
13 27 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (1.38%) IoT
15 22 (1.32%) Clustering
15 22 (1.32%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.14%) CMDB
17 18 (1.08%) Client/Server
18 14 (0.84%) Blog
19 9 (0.54%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 442 (26.55%) Linux
2 338 (20.30%) Windows
3 282 (16.94%) Android
4 264 (15.86%) Apple iOS
5 42 (2.52%) Unix
6 37 (2.22%) CentOS
7 34 (2.04%) Ubuntu
8 27 (1.62%) AIX
9 26 (1.56%) Debian
9 26 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.96%) Windows Server
11 12 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.48%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (44.56%) Agile
2 486 (29.19%) DevOps
3 439 (26.37%) MVC
4 432 (25.95%) Full Stack Development
5 375 (22.52%) Design Patterns
6 372 (22.34%) OO
7 361 (21.68%) User Experience
8 359 (21.56%) Web Development
9 325 (19.52%) SOLID
10 322 (19.34%) OOP
11 321 (19.28%) CI/CD
12 294 (17.66%) Microservices
13 276 (16.58%) Mentoring
14 274 (16.46%) MVVM
15 262 (15.74%) Software Engineering
16 259 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
17 258 (15.50%) TDD
18 243 (14.59%) Responsive Web Design
19 239 (14.35%) Scrum
20 238 (14.29%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 798 (47.93%) JavaScript
2 787 (47.27%) SQL
3 639 (38.38%) C#
4 541 (32.49%) Java
5 361 (21.68%) Python
6 177 (10.63%) TypeScript
7 108 (6.49%) PHP
8 98 (5.89%) T-SQL
9 70 (4.20%) VB.NET
10 68 (4.08%) Go
11 66 (3.96%) PowerShell
12 47 (2.82%) VB
13 45 (2.70%) C
14 44 (2.64%) C++
15 35 (2.10%) Kotlin
16 34 (2.04%) Apex Code
17 32 (1.92%) PL/SQL
18 27 (1.62%) VB6
19 25 (1.50%) XPath
20 23 (1.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 164 (9.85%) Security Cleared
2 147 (8.83%) SC Cleared
3 146 (8.77%) Degree
4 78 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 15 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 12 (0.72%) ISEB
9 12 (0.72%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.36%) PhD
12 3 (0.18%) CISSP
12 3 (0.18%) MCPD
12 3 (0.18%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.12%) CISA
13 2 (0.12%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (9.01%) QA
2 43 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.96%) GDPR
4 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.42%) WCAG
6 6 (0.36%) MiFID
6 6 (0.36%) PMO
6 6 (0.36%) SLA
7 5 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.30%) NIST
8 2 (0.12%) EMIR
8 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.12%) ISO 9000
8 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.060%) GRC
9 1 (0.060%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.060%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 284 (17.06%) Docker
2 30 (1.80%) Hyper-V
3 19 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
5 16 (0.96%) Active Directory
6 6 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.24%) vSphere
9 3 (0.18%) Varnish
9 3 (0.18%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.060%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.060%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 260 (15.62%) Kubernetes
2 98 (5.89%) Terraform
3 85 (5.11%) Ansible
4 31 (1.86%) Puppet
5 13 (0.78%) WMI
6 11 (0.66%) Nmap
7 10 (0.60%) Grafana
7 10 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.48%) Kibana
9 6 (0.36%) CloudHub
9 6 (0.36%) Packer
10 4 (0.24%) cPanel
10 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.24%) Rancher
11 3 (0.18%) Argo
11 3 (0.18%) Consul
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) Podman
13 1 (0.060%) Perfmon
13 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 266 (15.98%) Red Hat
2 251 (15.08%) IBM
3 239 (14.35%) Microsoft
4 108 (6.49%) Oracle
5 107 (6.43%) Google
6 41 (2.46%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.46%) WSO2
7 27 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 26 (1.56%) SaltStack
9 23 (1.38%) VMware
10 17 (1.02%) Splunk
11 13 (0.78%) Atlassian
11 13 (0.78%) MuleSoft
12 12 (0.72%) CheckPoint
13 11 (0.66%) Cisco
13 11 (0.66%) UiPath
14 10 (0.60%) Sybase
15 8 (0.48%) Adobe
15 8 (0.48%) Blue Prism
15 8 (0.48%) F5